Chapter 162 The name of this gun is Sickle

  【Full server announcement: The outpost has acquired a "Magnetic Confinement Plasma Processing Machine Tool" with a durability of 99% and an industrial index of +100】

  【Note 1: This machine tool can make metal parts of any geometric shape. Now players can submit relevant drawings to the manager assistant, explain the purpose, and obtain quotations and material requirements. Drawings can be drawn in the game, or electronic files can be submitted through the personal page of the official website. 】

  【Note 2: The processing equipment can only change the geometric shape of the material, but not the properties of the material itself, and the cutting process will generate waste. If the steel ingot is to be processed into a steel pipe, it must be pretreated first to be processed into a rod shape or a near rod shape. If you want to process copper ingots into copper wire, please use a wire drawing machine, so as not to occupy valuable machine tool resources. 】

  【Note 3: The specification of the input processing material is limited to 1X1X1m, and the material beyond the specification cannot be processed. 】

  The announcement was made at six o'clock in the evening.

   This point happens to be the peak time for players to go offline.

  Whether it is the brick-moving players who went to the northern town to pick up garbage, or the hunter players who went wild in the Elm District, most of them returned to the action camp.

  Looking at the announcement that popped up on the VM, the faces of the little players showed surprise expressions in unison.

   "Magnetic Confinement Plasma Machine Tool?"

   "Or CNC?"

   "What the **** is this stitch monster, why have I never heard of it?"

   "It's a coincidence that you have heard of it. In reality, 1 minute can be regarded as 'high constraint' and 'long pulse'. Do you understand what it means? Forget it, you don't understand even if you say it."

   "Hey, these guys who make games have big brains, and they don't even make drafts when they brag!"

  Although Chu Guang wants to share this joy with them, the joys and sorrows of people are not the same.

  Most players don't know how hard-won this machine tool is, and it's even more impossible to know how many sacrifices those small players who couldn't go online because of bugs made.

  They only thought that Boss Xia probably added another workbench. Now not only can he punch holes for weapons, but he can also give inscriptions on weapons?

   Anyway, they are all superfluous functions!

   Smarter little players think of the update of Alpha 0.8.

  The industrial index of the outpost increased by 100 points from 150 points to 250 points...that is to say, an increase of 166%?

   Doesn't that mean that the weapon shop will be updated! ?

  Some young players who were relatively criminal and happened to be in the outpost all excitedly took steel ingots and went to the manager's assistant to inquire about prices according to the instructions in the announcement.

  Some wanted to make an axe, and some wanted to make steel ingots look like rifles, but most of them left cursing in the end.

Why?

   Because it's not worth it!

  The start-up fee for a machine tool is as high as 100 silver, and the processing quotation for an ax is as high as 100 silver, which adds up to 200 silver.

   With this money, it is enough to buy twenty axes! If it is wholesaled from No. 81 Iron and Steel Plant, it is estimated that there will be some left.

  As for the rifle, the quotation for processing a rifled barrel is 200 silver, and the player must provide the rod-shaped steel by himself.

  If not, plasma heat welding is also required in operation, and the quotation will be doubled directly.

   With this money, buying two at the weapon store is enough!

   But think about it, it is not worthwhile to use such an advanced machine tool for an ordinary rifle, and the cost is completely uneconomical.

  At this time, in No. 81 Steel Plant.

   Sitting on the small bench, 【Yaer, I want to go to the toilet】, touched his chin with one hand, and held the steel ingot with the other. After staring at it for a long time, he held back a word.

   "I guess, that machine tool should be used to make production tools!"

  His good friend [Ward's beriberi who heard it] rolled his eyes.

   "It's up to you to say that! Take the tens of millions of CNC machine tools in the laboratory to mill seamless steel pipes, and see if your boss hammers you or not, and you're done."

  Brother Suo: "Uh...I feel like he's going to call the police and send me in."

Brother Levin: "The cost of using this machine tool is a bit high. I feel that it is not prepared for individual players at all. The start-up fee alone is 100 silver coins. Unless it is a company sponsored by the shelter, the average self-employed person is enough! "

  Brother Suo: "That may not be the case, Brother Mosquito will definitely be enough!"

  Brother Levin: "He won't say anything, that guy will say punishment to anyone who reads it. By the way, how much money is there in our account?"

  Brother Suo: "4000 silver... The newcomer came in and bought a lot of axes and arrows before, what? Are you going to pay dividends?"

Brother Levin: "Splitting ghosts! This money is enough to divide wool. I plan to get out the thermal piercer. Those parts that couldn't be made before, should be able to be processed with this machine tool. After the perforation machine, we can make seamless steel pipes!"

  Hearing this, Brother Suo's eyes lit up.

   "Niu, brother! Let's go together!"

  Brother Levin rolled his eyes: "Don't be silly, it will be offline in a while, you go get the blueprint and upload it, let's get a simpler one, I guess it shouldn't be too expensive."

  Brother Suo smiled.

   "Okay brother, I just made this after my graduation!"

  …

While Brother Levin and Brother Suo were discussing how to make the seamless steel pipe industry bigger and stronger, and create brilliance on the wasteland, Xiao Qi raised the camera to look at the third floor of the nursing home not far away. Xiang Chu Guang, who was standing aside, whispered.

   "Master, isn't the price you set too expensive?"

   At least a dozen people made inquiries just now, but when they heard that the startup fee was 100 silver coins, they were immediately frightened and turned around and left.

   It costs 100 silver to start the machine, it’s a money grab!

  Hearing Xiao Qi's suggestion, Chu Guang didn't take it seriously.

"It's not expensive at all, I even think it's cheap. They think it's expensive just because they don't have a deep understanding of the version, which means that they are not our target customers at all. If there is no threshold at all, God knows what blueprints they will bring over , do you want to use that thing to make a bunch of broken javelins and rotten axes?"

  Go to Boss Xia for this kind of thing!

  The two workbenches in her place, one DIY and the other picked up, can make this stuff.

  Xiao Qi clicked on the camera with a vague understanding, as if she understood, but she didn't seem to understand. From its point of view, should it not be allowed to be used to produce those things, and it should be directly stipulated that they should not be used?

  Why go around in a circle and use "threshold" to limit.

  Chu Guang does not intend to explain to AI his intention to do so, and the difference between human behavior logic and AI algorithm.

   What do you say?

  Chu Guang is not opposed to players playing some weird ideas, but he needs to pass the restrictions of the rules so that players can think clearly about whether it is worthwhile before using their creativity.

  As Xiao Qi himself said, this machine tool is not used to produce those crude things at all.

  Taking the AK47 he made earlier as an example, 6 kilograms of steel made 3 kilograms of workpieces, half of which were cut into strange-shaped steel scraps, and most likely they could only be sent to the steelmaking plant for remelting.

  In addition to this, there are also the consumed electric energy and the inert gas that is naturally lost during use. These are all visible costs, not to mention the invisible hidden costs.

  The real purpose of this thing is to produce "tools for production", or process some high-tech equipment with "high-tech added value" if materials are available.

  The latter is not considered for the time being, and the former is the main goal at this stage.

  Chu Guang intends to take it step by step, let his little players get a thermal piercer first, and solve the problem of the barrel.

   Leaving aside the complex technologies of three-roll continuous rolling and centering straightening, a piercing machine is enough to simply produce seamless steel pipes.

   Whether it can be produced in batches, efficiently, and with quality and quantity guaranteed is a matter for later. You must have the ability to produce before you can think of ways to optimize it.

   For a long time to come, seamless steel pipes will become the most important pillar industry of No. 404 Vault.

   As for the craft of the casing.

  Chu Guang hesitated for a while between the milling receiver and the punching receiver, and finally chose the latter.

  Although the milling casing is more modern and has higher precision, its disadvantages are also obvious. It not only wastes materials, but also requires high personnel and equipment, and the production efficiency is even lower.

  For example, the AK47 he made with a machine tool before, strictly speaking, it is a milling receiver, and even the barrel and the rifling in the barrel are cut out by single-atom knives.

  The stamping casing is different. Except for the more troublesome making of molds, the entire production process has almost no technical content, and the efficiency of mass production is particularly high.

  The only disadvantage is poor precision, but compared to its two advantages of cheapness and durability, this disadvantage is not a disadvantage at all, it is a small flaw at best.

   After all, in this wasteland environment, the average combat distance is less than 100 meters. No matter how accurate the shooting is, it is not as fast and stable as shooting.

  Based on the stamping process, Chu Guang intends to simply imitate the AK receiver and design a 7mm caliber rifle.

Compared with the upper and lower receiver design and the seven-shot shoot lock of the AR series rifles, the U-shaped receiver and the two-shot shoot lock design of the AK are more than twice as difficult to produce, and the mold can even be directly punched with a whole piece of steel come out.

  What is the concept of being able to punch out a whole piece of steel?

  It can be mass-produced like ink paper under a printer, and it can be used with a barrel and a solid wood stock, which perfectly meets the combat needs in the wasteland environment.

   There is a reason why this thing sells well in the third world.

  Especially in places where human life is not valuable, the cheaper the gun, the better.

   How wasteful it would be to die?

  …

  The next day.

  The entrance of the weapon store was crowded with people. Last night, many young players came back from the action camp, waiting for the weapon store to open.

   The yawning Boss Xia has long been accustomed to this.

  Opened the store door on time as usual, and she took out the two samples that Chu Guang asked her to make yesterday, and hung them on the semi-open window.

   Those are two rifles made of solid wood and pure steel.

   One of them has a compact layout. The buttstock and magazine are standard assault rifle shapes. The top rail can be installed with sights, and the grip can be installed under the barrel.

  The other has a significantly longer barrel and receiver, and the magazine embedded in the gun body only shows a triangular outline, which looks slightly wider.

  What both have in common is that they both have a rough appearance and majestic lines, and their appearance is extremely similar, like a good brother coming off an assembly line. Not only are the appearances similar, but the names of the two guns are also very similar. The long one is called LD-47s, and the short one is called LD-47.

   Besides that, they have a very coquettish nickname—

   Sickle!

   "Damn it, the weapon shop is really new today! Brother Fang is awesome!"

   "I understand this! LD-47s should be snipers!"

   "Got it! It's 98K!"

   "98k ghosts! It's obviously a sniper!"

   "Wait, that short one...why do I look more and more like AK?"

   "Be more confident, get rid of doubts, this operator is lazy again, probably copied CF's skin directly!"

  The prices of the two guns are very cheap, the long one is 250 silver coins, and the short one is 200 silver coins, which is only twice as expensive as the iron-barrel rifle!

  Now as long as you are an old player, who doesn't have two hundred silver coins in their pocket? Especially in the match against the legion, the basic income was 150 silver coins!

  Many people are still hesitating, but the quick-witted tail has already made a move.

   "Miss Boss! Give me a fix! I want the one with the long tail! Give Sis the short one."

   Glancing at the short-haired female player, Xia Yan yawned and jumped out a few words.

   "Sample, not for sale. Want to buy, wait two days."

   Hearing this unproficient and standard Mandarin, the players around were instantly stunned.

   Me?

  The proprietress not only changed her legs, but also updated the voice package!

  Epic level enhancement!

   Just as there was commotion in front of the weapons store, the industrial area to the south was also bustling.

  Many self-employed small life professional players just went online and were about to get on the truck to go to the action camp to go to the market, when a bunch of orders popped up on the task bar of the VM.

  Among them, some require the production of wooden butts, and some require the production of grips. It is not difficult, and it can even be said that there are hands.

   The ones that are a little more difficult also require grinding lenses and making optical sights. The types can be said to be varied.

  These tasks have one thing in common, that is, the rewards are quite generous, and due to the update of the Alpha0.8 version, there is an additional 10% reward bonus for orders!

   In addition, the first 100 orders of various products will also have additional contribution point rewards and regional reputation.

   Is this missing or is it human? !

   With such a generous reward, many small players who mainly focus on life professions are instantly ecstatic. One or two picked up tools one after another and went to work in their own small workshops, wishing to weld their butts to the bench.

  Of course, compared to those self-employed people who do manual work, what is really cool is a "big producer" who invests in a refuge.

  Early in the morning, the No. 81 Iron and Steel Plant of the outpost received an exclusive order—[produce 100 receivers and 100 barrels for the outpost]

  This order has clear requirements for the material, specification, size and even processing accuracy of the product, making production difficult.

   But it doesn't matter!

  The most important thing is that the wise and mighty manager not only offered a generous price of 4,000 silver coins, but also paid 50% of the order in advance as an advance payment.

  The sudden "windfall" smashed the toilet, brothers Suo and Levin were dizzy.

  Although the money is placed in the business account, it is still money!

Stimulated by the order, the two who were a little hesitant at first took a deposit of 4,000 silver coins and a large amount of steel in the inventory, went to the manager's assistant to order a large number of parts, and prepared to do a big job. The punching machine for the barrel and the stamping die for making the receiver are completed.

   In addition, the two of them also poured in the 2,000 silver coins that they had just received as an advance payment, which was used to issue scavenging tasks and order raw materials needed for production.

  Although the account of the iron and steel factory was spent without a penny left, the two of them didn't feel that there was anything wrong at all. Instead, they felt that the future could be expected.

   On the surface, in order to complete this order, not only did they not make any money, but they also put the money in their pockets into it.

  But can we only look at the surface of the problem?

   Of course not!

  The money spent did not disappear, but changed to a more advanced form and stayed with them forever.

  With the dies for punching machines and stamping casings, they will be able to complete more orders, further reduce production costs, further improve efficiency, and snowball will completely roll.

   This wave is more than a profit.

   It's a win, okay?

   Coincidentally, as the major shareholder of the steel plant, the wise and mighty manager also thinks so.

  For Chu Guang, money or not is a trivial matter. The key is that such a wave of operations not only greatly increased the production capacity of the steel plant, but also reduced the logistical pressure of the outpost.

  And what he paid was only a few thousand Happy Beans.

   This wave probably cannot be regarded as winning.

   It should be said that it is a win-win situation!

   He won twice after all.

  In addition to the gun itself, there are wooden buttstocks, triangular bayonets, magazine drums, bipods, optical sights and other accessories. Chu Guang intends to assemble them all.

  In the future, just by selling accessories and bullets, you can recover a lot of silver coins, and even dump the excess production capacity to the surrounding survivors, and even reverse export to Honghe Town and Boulder City.

  Chu Guang can be sure that as long as his weapons are sold cheap enough, those mercenaries and caravan guards who can't afford too expensive weapons will definitely love him to death.

   "However... at that time, it will definitely not work to use game currency as currency."

  This kind of game currency produced in the pre-war era, although its production technology is excellent and has a certain anti-counterfeiting ability, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the number is limited.

   Players can use electronic money, but those wastelanders don't recognize what they can't see, they don't even believe in paper money.

  Besides, Chu Guang is not sure whether the merchant named Sun Shiqi has kept something, such as secretly hiding a bag of coins and not selling it to himself.

   This kind of thing is not impossible.

  Looking at the outpost industrial zone in full swing and bustling again, Chu Guang silently made up his mind.

   "The second-generation currency must be launched as soon as possible!"

   This work must be done before winter is over.

  Once the winter is over, the trade in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City will be active again. And by that time, players will also usher in a more open, broader, and more challenging world.

   At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind, pulling Chu Guang's thoughts from afar back to the present.

  Fang Chang, who was fully armed, nodded slightly, and said respectfully: "My dear manager, we are ready. When will we start?"

  Standing up from the chair, Chu Guang grabbed the war hammer that was placed aside, and hung it on his back.

"Now."

  (end of this chapter)